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G E R B E R A MANGHAS.
Poisonous-fruited Gerbera.
C L A S S V. ORDER I.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
FLORES contorti. Corolla infundibuliformisj
pulposa. Drupa monosperma.
FLOWERS contorted. Blossom funnel-shapedj
p u l p / . Seed-vessel one-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
GERBERA foliis alternis, lato-lanceolatis, glabris :
ramis floriferis terminalibus : corolla alba,
infundibuliformi : perianthio 5-phyllo :
foliolis lanceolatisj deciduis : fructu persistente.
CEKBEKA with leaves alternate, broadly lanceshaped,
and smooth: flower-branches terminal
: blossoms white and funnel-shaped :
empalement 5-leaved : leaflets lance-shaped
and deciduous : fruit persistent.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A blossom spread open.
2. Empalement, summit magnified.
OUR drawing represents a new species of Cerbera introduced from Pulo-Pinang in I8O9, and which
flowered late in the autumn of 1812. for the first time in this country, in the hot stove of T . Evans, Esq.
whose collector informs us that it grows in abundance by the sea-side, and is a handsome shrub about
three feet high. By the natives it is calJed Dfvil's flower, a title they 3ppfy indiscrirrjinately to all noxious
plants. But although it is considered as poisonous (as are all the Cerberas at present known) the
natives of Am oyna are said by Rumphius to use it medicinally as a purgative, but that it is too powerful
to be taken with safety by strangers. In Macassar an oil is expressed from the fruit, which is burnt
in lamps, and emits a disagreeable smell. It bears a variety of names. By ihe Dutch it is called Milkh
o u t ; in Portugal and Malay, Manga Brava ; at Amboyna, Wabba ; in Macassar, Lambuto Baleyice,
Bintaro and Sassura Utan, and by some Caju Mat tu, Buta or Blinthout. There are three uncoloured
figures of i t ; one in Burmann's Zeylanica, page 150, tab. 70, figure 1 j another in Rnmphius' s Amboynensis,
vol. ii. page 243, figure 81 ; and in Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus, page 71, tab. 3, there is a
representation of it by the tille of Odallam; and, although a rough draft, it is certainly not the worst
figure of the plant.